Friday, December 7, 2018 Registration Desk Hours: 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM, 4th Floor Exhibit Hall Hours: 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM, 3rd Floor Audio-Visual Practice Room: 7:00 AM – 6:00 PM, 4th Floor, office beside Registration Desk Cyber Cafe - Third Floor Atrium Lounge, 3 – Open Area Session 4 – Friday – 8:00-9:45 am Committee on Libraries and Information Resources Subcommittee on Copyright Issues - (Meeting) - Rhode Island, 5 4-01 War and Society Revisited: The Second World War in the USSR as Performance - Arlington, 3 Chair: Vojin Majstorovic, Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (Austria) Papers: Roxane Samson-Paquet, U of Toronto (Canada) "Peasant Responses to War, Evacuation, and Occupation: Food and the Context of Violence in the USSR, June 1941–March 1942" Konstantin Fuks, U of Toronto (Canada) "Beyond the Soviet War Experience?: Mints Commission Interviews on Nazi-Occupied Latvia" Paula Chan, Georgetown U "Red Stars and Yellow Stars: Soviet Investigations of Nazi Crimes in the Baltic Republics" Disc.: Kenneth Slepyan, Transylvania U 4-02 Little-Known Russian and East European Research Resources in the San Francisco Bay Area - Berkeley, 3 Chair: Richard Gardner Robbins, U of New Mexico Papers: Natalia Ermakova, Western American Diocese ROCOR "The Russian Orthodox Church and Russian Emigration as Documented in the Archives of the Western American Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia" Galina Epifanova, Museum of Russian Culture, San Francisco "'In Memory of the Tsar': A Review of Memoirs of Witnesses and Contemporaries of Emperor Nicholas II from the Museum of Russian Culture of San Francisco" Liladhar R. Pendse, UC Berkeley "Rare Hidden Gems of Print Materials from Imperial Russia and its Predecessors at UC Berkeley" Disc.: Margarita Meniailenko, Museum of Russian Culture, San Francisco 4-03 Toward a More Belarusian Belarus - Boston University, 3 Chair: Andrei Vladimir Korobkov, Middle Tennessee State U Papers: Oleg Manaev, U of Tennessee / Independent Institute of Socio-Economic and Political Studies (Belarus) "Impact of Russian Media on Belarus and on the Other Countries in the East Slavic Triangle" David Roger Marples, U of Alberta (Canada) "Investigating Kuropaty Massacres: Research and Government Responses, 1988-2018" Grigory Ioffe, Radford U "Belarusian Nationalism Taking the Civic Path" Disc.: Elena Gapova, Western Michigan U / European Humanities U (Lithuania) 4-04 Ivan Goncharov’s Frigate Pallada: New Approaches - Boylston, 1 Chair: Katya Elizabeth Hokanson, U of Oregon Papers: Kirill Zubkov, St Petersburg State U (Russia) "'Pure Art and the National Idea: Goncharov's Travelogue and Literary Criticism of 1850s" This preliminary program was last updated on June 15, 2018. Changes will be made to the online version only Lyudmila Parts, McGill U (Canada) "'Who Are You Laughing at?': Identity and Laughter in Goncharov’s Travelogue" Ingrid Kleespies, U of Florida "The Clothes Make the Man: A Consideration of Taxidermic and Taxonomic Discourses in Goncharov’s Frigate Pallada" Disc.: Sara Dickinson, U of Genoa (Italy) 4-05 New Perspectives on Martyrdom in Late Imperial Russia - Brandeis, 3 Chair: Steven E. Harris, U of Mary Washington Papers: Ben Phillips, Queen Mary, U of London (UK) "M. O. Gershenzon, the ‘Decembrist Myth,’ and the Uses of Martyrdom in Late-Imperial Russia" Nicholas Bujalski, Cornell U "The Prison Memoir as Revolutionary Genre: Narrating Martyrdom in the Peter and Paul Fortress, 1866-1881" George Gilbert, U of Southampton "The Martyrdom of Grand Duke Sergei Aleksandrovich: 1905" Disc.: Susan K. Morrissey, UC Irvine 4-06 The First Czechoslovak Republic: The View from the First Hundred Years - Clarendon, 3 Chair: Jessie Labov, Central European U (Hungary) Papers: Abigail Ruth Weil, Harvard U "The Jester and the Castle: Jaroslav Hašek’s Critique of TG Masaryk" Meghan Leigh Forbes, The Museum of Modern Art "Foto, Kino, Film: Transatlantic Influence in Karel Teige’s Early Writings on Media" Thomas W. Ort, CUNY Queens College "An Ordinary Marriage?: Czech-German Matrimony in Karel Čapek’s An Ordinary Life (1934)" Disc.: Veronika Tuckerova, Harvard U 4-07 Revisiting the Cold War: Formal and Informal Exchanges across the Iron Curtain in the Long 1970s - Columbus 1, 1 Chair: Igor Tchoukarine, U of Minnesota Papers: Adelina Oana Stefan, Central European U (Hungary) "From New York to Bucharest and Back: Pan Am and Socialist Romania in the 1970s" Constantin Claudiu Oancea, Independent Scholar "Rocking Out and Outside the Border: Popular Music in 1970s Socialist Romania and Its Exchanges across the Iron Curtain" Pavel Szobi, European U Institute (Italy) "'Kingdom for the coal!': Czech Brown Coal in Bavaria in the Long 1970s" Disc.: Mary Catherine Neuburger, U of Texas at Austin 4-08 Documentary and Realism in Soviet Culture - (Roundtable) - Columbus II, 1 Chair: Edward Tyerman, UC Berkeley Part.: Holly E. Myers, Columbia U Elizabeth A. Papazian, U of Maryland, College Park Katherine M. H. Reischl, Princeton U Edward Tyerman, UC Berkeley Emily Stetson Van Buskirk, Rutgers, The State U of New Jersey 4-09 Figurative Language: Croatian - Connecticut, 5 Chair: Aida Vidan, Harvard U Papers: Anita Peti-Stantic, U of Zagreb (Croatia) "Figurative Potential of Light Verb Constructions in Croatian" Kristina Strkalj Despot, Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics (Croatia) "Embodied Conceptual Structures and (Figurative) Language Production" Ellen Elias-Bursac, Independent Scholar "Translating the Figurative Language of Bodrožić, Jergović, and Štiks" Disc.: Antje Postema, UC Berkeley This preliminary program was last updated on June 15, 2018. Changes will be made to the online version only 4-10 Staging (In)security: Remembering and Reimagining Soviet Military-industrial Production - Dartmouth, 3 Chair: Grace Mahoney, U of Michigan Papers: Robert Allen Kopack, U of Toronto "From Secret to Spectacle: Bioweapons, Uranium, Rare Earths and the Post-Soviet Afterlives of Stepnogorsk, Kazakhstan" Haley Jo Laurila, U of Michigan "Chernobyl’s Radioactive Memory: The Body as Alternative Archive" Rosibel Roman, Florida International U "Quiet River, Heavy Waters: Un-Silencing Narratives of Social-environmental Inequalities in the Southern Urals" Disc.: Maya Vinokour, New York U 4-11 Imagining the Dead and Managing Death Across the Soviet and Post-Soviet Periods - Exeter, 3 Chair: Neringa Klumbyte, Miami U Papers: Victoria Smolkin, Wesleyan U "In Search of the Soviet Way of Death: Ideology, History, and Memory in One Soviet Cemetery" Catherine Wanner, Pennsylvania State U "Martyrs and the Creation of an Affective Atmosphere of Death in Kyiv" Anya Bernstein, Harvard U "Managing the Undead: Technologies of Immortality in Contemporary Russia" Disc.: Bruce Grant, New York U Nancy Virginia Ries, Colgate U 4-12 Performative Subjectivities in Ukrainian Poetry of the Late Soviet Period - Fairfield, 3 Chair: Maria Grazia Bartolini, U of Milan (Italy) Papers: Oleh Kotsyuba, Harvard U "Staging the Apocalypse: Contemplation of Humanism in Viktor Kordun’s Early Poetry" Alessandro Achilli, Monash U (Australia) "The Subject as Contemplator and Contemplated in the Poetry of the Kyiv School" George G. Grabowicz, Harvard U "Man and Nature in the Poetry of Oleh Lysheha" Disc.: Halyna Hryn, Harvard U 4-13 Performing (Queer)Self - (Roundtable) - Falmouth, 4 Chair: Steven G Jug, Baylor U Part.: Marina Antic, Indiana U Bloomington Rebecca Baumgartner, Indiana U Bloomington Kayleigh Fischietto, Indiana U Bloomington Alexander Kondakov, European U at St. Petersburg (Russia) Galina Miazhevich, Cardiff U (UK) 4-14 Underground Music, Politics, and Culture in Soviet and Post-Soviet Space - (Roundtable) - Grand Ballroom Salon A, 4 Chair: Alexander Thomas Herbert, Brandeis U Part.: Gabrielle Cornish, Eastman School of Music (U of Rochester) Maya Aracelia Acevedo Garcia, Harvard U Anastasiia Gordiienko, Ohio State U Tierre Sanford, U of Virginia Agnes Sekowski, U of Texas at Austin 4-15 The EuroMaidan in Ukraine: The Role of Ideology, Media, and Gender - Grand Ballroom Salon B, 4 Chair: Nadia M Diuk, National Endowment for Democracy Papers: Sophia Wilson, Southern Illinois U Edwardsville "The Ukrainian Maidan Revolution: Negotiating Ideology" Olena Nikolayenko, Fordham U "Women on the Maidan: Who Protested and Why?" Tetyana Lokot, Dublin City U (Ireland) This preliminary program was last updated on June 15, 2018. Changes will be made to the online version only "Seeing and Being Seen: Exploring the Perceived Affordances of Social Media for Witnessing in the Euromaidan Protest" Disc.: Sharon L. Wolchik, George Washington U Marian Jean Rubchak, Valparaiso U 4-16 Populism on the Rise - Grand Ballroom Salon C, 4 Chair: Sharon Werning Rivera, Hamilton College Papers: Tsveta Petrova, Columbia U Maria Snegovaya, Columbia U "Democracy in Dark Times: Contemporary Central European Populism" Joseph Coelho, Framingham State U Kaan Agartan, Framingham State U "Religion and Authoritarian Populism in Kosovo and Turkey" Olga Malinova, NRU Higher School of Economics (Russia) "The Framing of Memory of the 1990s as a Tool of Legitimization of Putin’s Regime" Disc.: Sharon Werning Rivera, Hamilton College 4-17 Russia, Nature, Writing: Shaping an Anthology of Key Texts in English - (Roundtable) - Grand Ballroom Salon D, 4 Chair: Jane Tussey Costlow, Bates College Part.: Thomas Peter Hodge, Wellesley College Ryan T Jones, U of Oregon Isabel Lane, Yale U Thomas Newlin, Oberlin College Peter Thomson, PRI's The World 4-18 Piecing Together the Russian (Socio) Legal